Those who despair of Soviet official treatment and make known their desire to leave the country are immediately subjected to economic injury. are deprived of their employment. are punished in other ways. Some have been slapped into mental institutions and into jail on trumpedup charges. Nevertheless. knowing that vindictiveness and harm will be visited upon them for their action. brave Jews are speaking up and demanding that they be allowed to emigrate to Israel or to other countries. It is their right under Soviet law. The Soviet Government boasts of having signed and ratified the International Covenant against Racial Discrimination.
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